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by gravitycop 18y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22teaching+to+the+test%22 By the way, some committee leaders think it's a great idea: http://www.greatschools.net/cgi-bin/showarticle/823 says Nancy Grasmick, Maryland's state superintendent of schools,
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I've never seen a convincing refutation of the argument [Richard Kulisz] presents there. He seems to simply be restating a typical resolution of the Fermi paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Explaining_the_pa...
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Thanks. Yes. That is what I meant.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
>>> The AAA credit rating is in terms of US dollars. >> Sometimes. Sometimes not. > you replied that it is not. No. I replied, "Sometimes. Sometimes not," intending to imply that it is not always defined in only one
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by gravitycop 18y ago
in this case the inaccuracy is in the referenced article. The article title is not inaccurate.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
There's no proof of it Proof is here: http://images.google.com/images?q=bible Science is somewhere else: http://www.google.com/search?q=science+proof
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by gravitycop 18y ago
1600x900 [...] only 13.3" That works out to a horizontal PPI of 138.03. http://members.ping.de/~sven/dpi.html If subpixel rendering is being used (e.g. ClearType on Windows), then the horizontal PPI [EDIT: when displaying text] is 3x th
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The combined area of two 24" monitors is equal to the area of one 33.94" monitor of the same aspect ratio. ((24^2)*2)^-2 = 33.941125496954281171240529381033 A combined area equal to the area of a single 48" monitor would imply that y
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by gravitycop 18y ago
a mere 17" of screen real state and 2GB of RAM is just not enough for the long-term. Compare this to the 48" of screen and 6GB of RAM I get from my Mac Pro You run four 24" monitors?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
More, of same, here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Incorrect_predictions
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by gravitycop 18y ago
~350 founders x $5,000/founder = ~$1.75 million invested, so far. Was there something incorrect, or otherwise objectionable, about this comment?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The Credit Rating wikipedia page does not show him to be wrong. Was linking to the Credit Rating wikipedia page intended to show someone to be wrong? The Credit Rating wikipedia page indicates that credit rating can be defined in more t
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The AAA credit rating is in terms of US dollars. Sometimes. Sometimes not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivocation_fallacy
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I just got a new car a few days ago... I filled out a finance form online, made a call the next morning. Did some negotiation after I got there Where was "there"? Do you generally do some negotiation after you get "there" when you buy a b
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by gravitycop 18y ago
you don't have infinite money to spend, so there's a good chance you'll go broke before you win I.e. risk-of-ruin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruin_theory
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by gravitycop 18y ago
One could even rent a car (to test-own) from a business that rents cars.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
at the end of the day [dealer's] profits are really in the service and maintentance Why would anyone bother paying to maintain an automobile cheaply-purchased online, when he could instead cheaply purchase another new automobile online?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
could you please explain what you mean with [amazon.com analogies to online car sales] Wikipedia can do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com Amazon.com [...] is America's largest online retailer
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by gravitycop 18y ago
at the end of the day [dealer's] profits are really in the service and maintentance Amazon.com's profits are in the service and maintenance of the books it sells? Most dealers get their profits only if they reach certain sales targets i
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by gravitycop 18y ago
for the last 10 years [...] it has been possible to buy new cars online In what country? Is Amazon.com selling and shipping these cars?
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by gravitycop 18y ago
~250 founders of 102 companies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHlj3xKyChg We need to add another 100 ghost founders to account for the extra $5,000, so that makes it: ~350 founders x $5,000/founder = ~$1.75 million invested, so far. Y Co
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by gravitycop 18y ago
If I'm going to spend $30k buying something which I'm going to use for the next 5-10 years Would it be safe to say that people tend to keep cars for a long time because cars are expensive? If cars were sold the way Dell laptop computers a
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by gravitycop 18y ago
They won't make it cheaper than if you had less house. Actually, more mass (book mass, or any other kind) does make HVAC cheaper: http://static.monolithic.com/pres/rvalue The California Handbook for Solar Energy is the only government
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by gravitycop 18y ago
The 90's comic strip "The VC" on NDA's: http://www.thevc.com/strips/strip05.html
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by gravitycop 18y ago
I was waiting for him to mention gift economies Isn't Brain's "Australia" basically a gift economy? http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna6.htm In Australia, these people could completely fulfill themselves, and humanity would be much bett
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Except for that the money doesn't come from the people, since it is fiat money Don't you mean "seigniorage" money? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage as opposed to money being collected via taxes. Isn't seigniorage a type of ta
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Sony develops finger-vein biometric authentication for laptops and phones(blog.wired.com)
1 points by gravitycop 18y ago|0 comments
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by gravitycop 18y ago
Update: I guess Skype-to-Skype video calling is limited to just two participants, for now: http://support.skype.com/en_US/faq/FA661/How-do-I-start-a-vi... Video calls are only possible with two participants. Unfortunately, video conferen
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by gravitycop 18y ago
a two-person audio conference, for instance? How about a Skype video-conference? http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/videocall Some angel investors use it to attend far-away board meetings from home.
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by gravitycop 18y ago
the market substitute for [Lipitor] was [...] death. What about red yeast rice extract? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_yeast_rice#Modern_Medicine Or, better yet, a healthy regimen? http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2005/oct2005_cover_ar

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